In this pulse-racing Christian thriller, Titus Ray, travels from Costa Rica to Caracas in an effort to stop Ahmed, a Hezbollah assassin, from murdering a high-profile government official. Along the way, he mentors an untested operative and confronts an old nemesis, while trying to figure out how his newfound faith can be lived out in the shadowy world of espionage.

While on the run from the Iranian secret police, CIA officer Titus Ray encounters a group of Iranian Christians. The battle-hardened intelligence officer becomes a believer shortly before being smuggled out of Iran to freedom in Turkey. Back in the States, Titus learns he’s been targeted by a Hezbollah assassin. Now, while trying to figure out what it means to be a follower of Christ, Titus must decide if the couple he meets in Norman, Oklahoma has ties to the man who’s trying to kill him, and if Nikki Saxon, a beautiful local detective, can be trusted with his secrets.

Targeted Age Group:: 35+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I was inspired to write this series of Christian thrillers after hearing about the persecution of Christians in Iran. I asked, what if a CIA covert officer met a group of these believers and made a commitment to Christ? How would this battle-hardened member of America’s foremost intelligence agency be able to continue to do what he does best–lie, deceive and commit treacherous acts–while learning to be a follower of Christ?

Chief of Police Matt Foley has a new bride and the most complex case of his career.
A prominent couple prepares to retire, when an assassin’s bullets retires them permanently. And he doesn’t stop there.
As the investigation pushes forward, layers of deceit, greed, and bitterness are peeled away, and two families, connected by marriage and murder, face the exposure of their darkest secrets. It’s just another case until Matt finds his wife caught in the killer’s crosshairs.

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
DOWNFALL is book 3 in a police procedural suspense series. i started the series because its the genre I like to read and I found that most of what was available had more violence and sex content than I like. My goal was to write exciting novels that people like myself would enjoy and find entertaining.

At thirty-nine years of age, Will Gailey is an “over the hill” singer-songwriter who leads a rock band that the music business doesn’t consider to have the “now” sound. A trauma has rocked his world, and as a result his memory of events has been severely affected. Will can remember the lyrics and chord changes to his songs, but there are other things that seemingly he’s forgotten. Will has always enjoyed fishing, but even that relaxing activity has become a source of frustration. He’s become angry and disassociated, and has turned from the one thing that could bring him peace and healing. And where that one thing is concerned, that’s where his anger and the blame for his physical and spiritual pain are errantly directed. In his mind, that one thing is the cause for his loss and his suffering.

Months after the trauma, Will continues to suffer crushing headaches. He decides to take matters into his own hands as what is supposed to heal his anguish is only exacerbating it. He’s become weakened, vulnerable, and open to spiritual torment. He’s alone and in need of help, but when people come into his life that can be of assistance he’s apt to reject them. Vivid dreams, visions, and hallucinations occur, and in them are both the help he needs and likewise persecution. Will was a strong man, but now there’s a strong man that’s found a breach and is creating havoc in his life. Will remembers how to defeat the strong man, but it seems that he’s chosen to forget.

Will has changed, but band mates and friends remember how he “used to be.” Can he be the way he used to be again?

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I have to admit that the inspiration for Remembering Will came out of the blue. My previous works have all been related to the biblical end of days, but as I was driving on snow-covered roads in the record-breaking cold of February 2015, I thought of warm weather and fishing. Then, as a musician myself, I began to think about struggling musicians that would be considered over the hill by music business standards. The two themes of music and fishing merged together in my mind. From that, I thought of a character named Will who is a musician that enjoys fishing. His troubles and torments grew out of that as I drove, and the ideas of trauma and memory loss came from there. I thought about pain and medication and likewise the loss of faith and hope. This poor guy Will, what would happen to him? What would cause his physical pain and spiritual and mental torments? I had to get home and start writing! I have to admit that the story ripped me up as I began to put it together.

Field Research Location:
Columbia and Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois.

Goals:
Discover where Fort Piggot was located on the Kaskaskia Trail, while staying clear of attractive, single colleagues (ie. Brett!) so as not to commit career suicide, while also keeping the “rewinding time” program secret, so Uncle Sam doesn’t turn into Big Brother.

Merrideth Randall’s day job is teaching history at McKendree College. But after hours she turns to her first love, historical research. And she has a tool other historians can only dream of—a computer program that rewinds time!

Merrideth makes a virtual visit to the 1780s, hoping to be the first to locate Fort Piggot. Along the way, she gets a first-hand look at the lives of the courageous pioneers of the Illinois Country, who withstood Indian attacks, hardship, and loneliness to settle the rich land.

One of the settlers is James Garretson, who risks his life to take the Gospel to the very tribe that wreaked havoc on his family. Merrideth is amazed that he could forgive a crime so huge. Hero or fool, James Garretson is the ancestor of her colleague Brett, a physics professor at McKendree College.

With her findings, Merrideth is able to help Brett with his genealogy, but she can’t tell him everything she learned—like that he inherited his black hair and green eyes from James Garretson, or that his aunt’s poetry is eerily similar to the verse Garretson’s wife Isabelle used to compose at her spinning wheel.

Brett has rock-star status on campus, but amazingly enough, he seems to be pursuing Merrideth—in spite of her firm policy against dating co-workers. She would love to tell him about her amazing program, but discretion is not his strong suit. She has secrets about herself that she’d just as soon he didn’t find out either. One virtue Brett does have is patience, and he’s quite willing to wait for Merrideth to figure things out.

Targeted Age Group:: adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
When Every Hill and Mountain, the third in my Time and Again “history mystery” trilogy, was completed, fans asked for more. I’m very excited to announce my new Rewinding Time Series. It features some of the same characters from the trilogy but it takes place fifteen years after that amazing summer Abby came to tutor Merrideth. It is not necessary to read the trilogy in order read the new series, but those who did will enjoy revisiting Merrideth, who is all grown up with “history mysteries” of her own to solve.

Once Again: an inspirational novel of history, mystery & romance is the first in the series, and the second book will follow soon after in January 2015. And I have lots more historical adventures planned after that.

Her relatives say, “Don’t bury yourself in that wilderness. Even though you’re a widow, you’re still young.” But Madeleine decides to go. She’ll help her aunt restore the old house; she’ll sign up for an online baking course; and she’ll be strong and independent.

Her plan seems to be working until she has to deflect the attentions of two men. The doctor, who has a fire-scarred past, is not upset by her panic attacks and knows he can help her to heal. The writer, who conceals more than one secret, admires her spirit and is certain that she needs him. God uses both men and her father’s gift of a floral paperweight to remind Madeleine of His enduring “forever love,” and as she yields to Him, she finds the courage to take a new and challenging path.

A young widow is determined to leave behind her agonizing memories and take a stand for independence. She joins her aunt’s home-restoration project in the wilderness, but God has set His own plans into motion. Two men enter her life, bringing both fear and joy, and in her conflict with them she finds the courage to take a new and challenging path.

Young, beautiful, ambitious Megan Cleary seems to have the perfect life–a dream job in a prestigious law firm in New York City, an upscale boyfriend, and a fabulous apartment. But her perfect world is shattered when one night she is brutally attacked. Afraid and ashamed, she cannot forget her terrifying ordeal, and shortly afterward she illegally buys a handgun to protect herself.

A few months later, Megan is attacked again, but this time she is armed and ready. She shoots her assailant and flees the scene before the police arrive and discover the body. She never tells anyone that she owns a gun or that she has killed a man, but her life begins to unravel as she struggles to gain control of the fear and guilt from which she cannot free herself. When events beyond her control leave her financially destitute and emotionally drained, she returns to her parents’ home in Buffalo to start over.